Social Trading with the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Trading Platforms

MetaQuotes Software Corp.

8 July 2013

What is social trading? It is a mutually beneficial cooperation
of traders and investors whereby successful traders allow monitoring of
their trading and potential investors take the opportunity to monitor
their performance and copy trades of those who look more promising.

You monitor real-time trading of a number of traders, connect to the
most successful ones and copy their trades in automatic mode - that's
what social trading is about. For novice and inexperienced traders who
have just turned to financial markets for additional income, it is
probably the best opportunity to actually start trading.

You do not need to be a professional trader with a great bundle of
knowledge and skills in order to trade professionally. Nor do you need
to follow and analyze the news from financial markets, work out and
implement trading strategies and be prepared to change the ones that
fail to keep monitoring their performance in the new market conditions.
Thanks to social trading it all becomes unnecessary since you can simply
copy trades of all those who follow the news, analyze markets and
create profitable strategies.

Is it difficult to start mirror trading and how much does it take?
While hedge fund investing was not available to many due to high entry
threshold (hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars), social
trading is a highly affordable system available to absolutely any trader
with any income level. It opens up access to a large market with vast
opportunities that you, too, can use.

Social trading advantages are obvious:

Additional income for both traders and investors

Investment diversification

Opportunity to connect to the most successful traders and automatically mirror their trades

Low entry threshold: you can start with a minimum budget

Practice opportunities: you can trade on demo accounts in a training mode

Time saving

High operability and user-friendly interface

Ready
to take the opportunities offered by social trading but don't know
where to start? MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 are the most famous and
popular platforms for social and mirror trading, with Trading Signals
service being a very convenient, advanced social trading feature
offered in these platforms. Social trading with the MetaTrader platforms
is very straightforward: the user chooses the signal directly in the
terminal, subscribes to it and from that moment on all trades are copied
in his account.

Social trading with MetaTrader will allow you to monitor trading
activity and profitability of successful traders, and most importantly,
copy their trades. If you see a positive trend in performance of one of
the traders whose signal is available for subscription, go ahead with it
and start copying his trades. The trading terminal will automatically
mirror all trades of the signals provider in your account, without any
manual intervention necessary.

So, after subscribing the trader can earn money using the Signals service, without effort, skills or trading experience.

After all, social trading should be simple and straightforward to be
easily understood by traders with any background. We cannot but admit
it. In this light, MetaTrader trading signals appear to be perfectly
adequate. They are available to any user, regardless of their trading
experience. Here, you are not required to sign an agreement with a
provider of the selected signal or a broker, nor is there any paperwork
or manual control necessary. Everything is done automatically.

All you need is to specify your broker and enter the number of your account on
the broker's server. Nothing more than that. Subscription process will
take very little time. The description of a step-by-step subscription
procedure is available in the article entitled "How to Subscribe to Trading Signals". After reading it, you will subscribe to the signal of your choice quickly and easily.

Despite being seemingly complicated, choosing a provider of the suitable signal has been made as simple as possible - the Trading Signals section
features a regularly updated list of providers. By default, signals
on the list are sorted by quality ensuring that top positions are taken
by signals with higher credibility and better financial performance.
However, for your convenience trading signals can also be sorted by
monthly growth, number of subscribers, price and other parameters.

Social trading with the MetaTrader trading platforms is easy,
straightforward and available to everyone. Out of thousands of available
signals providers, you just need to choose the one that suits you more
and measures up to your parameters!